PHED-3506EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Seasonal Affective Disorder, Health Promotion, Network For Earthquake Engineering Simulation
15 Jan 2016
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The state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. What are the strengths and weakness of the aforementioned definition: missing spiritual health, it is difficult to achieve completeness, unrealistic. The study of health in a population with respect to: health indicators, disease. Essential to public health: public health helps to: Inform health care practitioners and researchers based on the region. Inform and protect consumers (patients, residents) based on the region. Knowledge translation is a key factor between epidemiologists, public health sector and the public. A measure that suggests the state of health of individuals within a. The underlying defect or malfunction within the organism. Characteristics of individual within a population or study: age, sex, race, occupation, etc, information used in descriptive epidemiology. A countable instance in the population of a particular disease, or condition that is being studied or investigated.
